The above video took place at a Critical Mass gathering in Porto Alegre, Brazil. (If you're not in the know, Critical Masses are large bicycle rallies where bikers take over an entire street). Here's a link to a more detailed article about this...
Thankfully, no one was killed, but 12 people were hospitalized because of this crazy motherfucker. Almost as disturbing as the driver's lack of empathy were the Porto Alegre police chief's remarks:
"This is no Libya," said the chief, Gilberto Almeida Montenegro. "Here we have complete freedom to protest, as long as you tell authorities. Do your protest, but don't interfere in the flow of automobiles. If you interfere, there will be confusion, chaos and accident."Can you believe that?! Some nutcase runs over a bunch of people peacefully riding bicycles, and the police chief blames it on "confusion, chaos, and accident"! Un-be-fucking-lievable. Imagine if someone had taken a gun out, shot, and wounded 12 people - hard to imagine that being called an accident.
Source: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/bicycle/detail?entry_id=84019#ixzz1FPbuoLRi
To be fair, sometimes I get a little annoyed at people riding on bikes on the road, too. For example, for a while in Minneapolis, every Friday afternoon there was a "Critical Mass" during rush hour that just happened to be on my way back from work. These bikers held up everyone's commute every week for an extra 45 minutes, and for what? I support their right to be on the road, but I don't think they accomplished anything but pissing a bunch of people off.
But I wouldn't drive my car through a bunch of them. As ODB would say, that's enough to make someone go CRA-A-A-A-A-ZY
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